Death Stranding Finally Comes Out, Fans Get To Work Finding Out What The Hell It's About
On June 13th, 2016, when Hideo Kojima first debuted the trailer for Death Stranding and everyone collectively went "what the shit?", it almost seemed like the game would never come out. The inscrutable trailer and every subsequent, equally inscrutable trailer seemed more like performance art from the notoriously wacky video game auteur than an actual advertisement for a video game. Yet the game is out, today, and you can play it and find out what the hell it's about. It still doesn't feel real.
The hype for its release was naturally out of control. Twitter users eagerly shared their excitement for the game.
This game is fucking out of control so far#DeathStranding #PS4shareTotally worth the wait for that sweet sweet
HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN</a> magic <a href="https://t.co/FDdqHUpdAZ">pic.twitter.com/FDdqHUpdAZ</a></p>— 🦇spOOpsy dOOpsy dOO👻 (the_rudoFF) November 8, 2019
Now, the humorous way to describe Death Stranding:You're the FedEx guy who moonlights as a Cable Guy for internet connections that works the WORST NEIGHBORHOOD THAT EVER EXISTED. https://t.co/4JNAxJXpAT
— Oliver Campbell (@oliverbcampbell) November 8, 2019
Others revved up some anti-hype.
I've played about all I can take of Death Stranding. Jimpressions coming up.
— Sterling! (@JimSterling) November 8, 2019
Review bombing is dumb as shit, but I can’t help but laugh at this one LMAOO.DEATH STRANDING IS ZELDA BOTW WITH UBER EATS COMBINED.AND WHYD HE TURN SPANISH WHEN SAID COMBINATION CNJDDJDID pic.twitter.com/vHE3eT8Jxw
— FADEL – Master Of Hype (@TheGamesCage) November 8, 2019
Looks like Kojima’s magic didn’t work on #DeathStranding…. pic.twitter.com/ZyocYojbsY
— TheNCSmaster (@TheNCSmaster) November 8, 2019
It will be interesting to see how the fan reaction plays out over the coming weeks as fans devour Kojima's new, insane game. For now, most seem to just be appreciative that it's finally here.
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rysziz
I've liked the 45 minutes I've played out of the 2 hours of gameplay, though this is what I expected with a Kojima game. Tried my best explaining what I've seen so far to friends and they looked at me like I had a third eye growing out of my forehead but they were showing interest in what I was telling them. I'm still waiting to see if this will be a good thing for Kojima to be untethered by supervisors/editors or if he's going to be too nutso for his own good and end up like Alan Moore did in the last few years with some of his recent work like where the League of Extraordinary Gentleman battled a gigantic, naked Harry Potter who shot lightning bolts from his dong.
Also I think the most confusing thing I've come across so far in this game is that despite the nation and presumably the world has been ravaged and separated by the BTs, that Monster Energy is still available in mass quantities and there are promotional ads for Norman Reedu's motorcycle riding show on AMC.
Lexicanium Coeus
It's not really as much bombing as other games.
Open world sandboxes aren't for everyone after all.
Timey16
Based on impressions it seems very much to be a "love it or hate it" kind of game, with little ground in between.
I mean, there are a TON of people that enjoy delivery games, just look at the fans of Euro-Truck simulator or Elite Dangerous. But it sure as fuck isn't for everyone. It seems to be a game for people that enjoy exploration and traveling in the game just for the sake of it, not expecting any rewards.
From what I have heard, the A to B is engaging, but it is the way back from B to A that becomes very boring, very fast.
rysziz
Was looking at the trophy list for the game and in a comment about maxing out the various bases, it strongly suggests investing in building ziplines ASAP as it can make a "70hr experience a 130hr experience." Even then that's still a crapton of travel.
The greater aerie
"review bombing"
is a corporate anti consumer meme to erase popular issues with a product
CN Femboy
not really since review bombing is something that actually happens, usually when there's a controversy about the contents of a game, or about something the people working/worked on the game have done. Like, Borderlands 2 got review bombed with negative reviews after it came out that the gearbox CEO is a huge damn cunt. Popular console exclusive releases also occasionally get a more minor scale review bombing on release by fanboys of the console that didn't get the game.
But there's not only negative review bombing, as I've seen many user reviews on websites like metacritic giving 10/10s (sometimes even stating that they don't think it's a 10/10) just to increase the average rating.
The greater aerie
if that is the case and consumers (and companies) are able to increase and decrease the rating of the product as per their whim then i don't see the problem. and it's just a loaded term for consumer engagement and backlash.
on wikipedia they also categorize the response to the paid mods as review bombing.
the very justified anger at Mass effect 3 likewise and what i see is the progression of this rhetoric would build the methods to shut down these responses and otherwise discredit them as Colin Morality tried to do with "entitlement".
and this is why i find is so pernicious in this meme you've found websites curbing their own user responses for one way or another and this is likely at the behest of corporations who want to secure more profits by shutting down consumer dissent. it curbs consumer power by painting something nefarious and reactionary in the response by consumers and i refuse to engage with this terminology because it is entirely a tool of corporations.
El Lugubre
To tack onto this, the memes "Gamers rise up", "They targeted us gamers (…)" and "Gamers are an oppressed group" are memes that are gnerally directed at people who make their hobby too large of a part within their identity and lash out viciously to perceived threats. On the other hand, they were also to silence people who do actually point shitty practices, discrediting them as reactionaries and such.
The "You cheated yourself" guy might have been overly dramtic or stupid, but the copypasta was made because someone was making the point that the artistic integrity of a game is not even second to the way things the player wants them to be. While i don't believe said critic missed on some enlightenment for cheating at the game, they did cheapen the experience for themselves, which is iffy if it happens to color the way they review things as the challenge IS part of said experience.